R4/931

Applications for farms, gardens, and work from local people, 1884

1884

From: 1884 To: 1884

includes one from George Norris who asks for a farm of 60 to 100 acres - has been trying "at the Farm Office" for over 20 years. "...if Land is been kept up to a good pitch there is a living to be got ... I have kept up my twenty pols four loads of manure every two years and that for thirty years and have never been behind with my rent". "Sir I do feel it very hard that a Labourer cannot rise by thrift ... then in a few years go into the Union". A former workman, Alfred Smith is agrieved because he is not offered employment on the estate "having been a consant labourer in is Graces Woods for this elevens Winters ....I are not having Justice done by me sir".

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Norris, George,
Smith, Alfred,
Duke of Bedford

farms, gardens, employment, Woburn Park Farm Office, manuring, rentals, labourer, Poor Law Unions, parish union, ESTATES (LANDED), woods